diff --git a/python-keyring.changes b/python-keyring.changes
index f75569d..716af9e 100644
--- a/python-keyring.changes
+++ b/python-keyring.changes
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
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 Fri Mar 22 14:07:23 UTC 2013 - speilicke@suse.com
 
-- Require python-gnomekeyring to have a working keyring on both
-  Gnome and KDE.
+- Recommend both python-gnomekeyring and python-kde4 needed for
+  Gnome and KDE keyring implementations.
 
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 Mon Feb 11 09:19:27 UTC 2013 - saschpe@suse.de
diff --git a/python-keyring.spec b/python-keyring.spec
index 0835889..039e313 100644
--- a/python-keyring.spec
+++ b/python-keyring.spec
@@ -36,10 +36,7 @@ Provides:       python-keyring-kde = %{version}
 Obsoletes:      python-keyring-kde < %{version}
 Provides:       python-keyring-gnome = %{version}
 Obsoletes:      python-keyring-gnome < %{version}
-#NOTE(saschpe): When running under KDE, the 'Gnome' keyring backend is chosen still.
-# on openSUSE, python-gnomekeyring has much less deps than python-kde4, so we take
-# it as the default:
-Requires:       python-gnomekeyring
+Recommends:     python-gnomekeyring
 Recommends:     python-kde4
 %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
 %{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}